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entrance towards the NE. [North East]. It has several
small rounded recesses in the interior wall.
In rear of the shepherd's cottage is a hut circle,
a circular enclosure with entrance 5' wide, and
a large group of cairns which I must visit
again. I was much indebted for assis:
:tance to the son of the shepherd Macbeth
who helped me to measure all these circles,
and I was much refreshed by a jug of milk
and bread and butter at the cottage. The
son accompanied me back round the N. [North]
side of Creag Amail to The Mound and
took me to a rock shelter in the E [East] face of the
most northerly shoulder directly above the road
and some 60 ft. [feet] up. It is absolutely hidden
by a large mass of rock which occupies the
front of the platform. The shelter is known
as Macpherson Cham's Cave. (Cham = crooked)
Macpherson being said to have been a free-booter.

[Margin] It is easily recognised from below by the growth of ivy which issuing from the shelter clambers over the rock above.

There are signs of human occupancy in
the soil at the N. [North] end. Mr. Donald McKenzie
told me that a brace of pistols were found
in the shelter some years' ago.

8 July. Writing notes till 11.30. then set off on
my bicycle to Bonar Bridge. On the
road-side near Ospisdale Ho. [House] is a tall

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